The game will also include a former punter from Nebraska (Baltimore's Sam Koch), marking the 20th year in a row the Cornhuskers will have a player participating in the NFL's deciding game - the longest such streak of any school in college football, according to a survey of college sports information directors compiled by Dan Apple, the assistant director of communications for the University of Florida's football program.

Nebraska's streak is six years longer than its next-closest competitors, Notre Dame and Purdue. Rounding out the top 10 are Ohio State, LSU, Georgia and Illinois (12 years in a row), Florida (11), Iowa (10) and Texas (eight).

Texas has had at least one player participate in 29 of the 47 Super Bowls, including four in this year's game: Baltimore's Chykie Brown and Justin Tucker and the 49ers' Tarell Brown and Leonard Davis.

At least one ex-Penn State player has been in 42 of the 47 Super Bowls - San Francisco has linebackers Navarro Bowman and Nate Stupar - and 35 former players have won a ring; most recently, former Nittany Lions Kareem McKenzie and Jimmy Kennedy did so with the New York Giants last February.

But in terms of an active streak, it's Nebraska by a wide margin. The ex-Cornhuskers who make up the program's run, dating back to Super Bowl XXVIII, when Dallas beat Buffalo 30-13: